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In this file photograph taken Dec. 2, 2009, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show, in Los Angeles. General Motors Co. said Tuesday, July 27, 2010, its Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost $41,000 when it goes on sale in November. The price is about $8,000 more than its closest rival, the all-electric Nissan Leaf.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)
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Recording artist Wylclef Jean, right, is interviewed by host Stuart Varney on the "Varney & Company" program on the Fox Business Network, in New York Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Julian Assange, an Australian who launched WikiLeaks four years ago, concedes that even his team hasn't read all the documents about the Afghanistan war released on his website. (Provided by Martina Haris)
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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward leaves the oil company's offices in London on Monday in the back of a car. He became the face of BP's failure to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and will step down in October. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Ford Motor Company unveils the 2011 Ford Explorer during a news conference in New York, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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** FILE ** In this July 7, 2010 file photo, a worker labors at a steel plant in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. China's Cabinet Monday promised private investors a bigger role in industries from oil drilling to finance, apparently responding to complaints that state companies were boosted by Beijing's huge stimulus while private enterprise withered in the global crisis. (AP Photo/file)
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Damen Morrison holds his son, Drayden, 2, as he checks out new cars in the showroom at O'Meara Ford in Northglenn, Colo., on Thursday. Ford Motor Co. reported second-quarter net income of $2.6 billion, completing its most profitable first half in more than a decade. (Bloomberg)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he supports in principle the House Democrats' wish list, but stripped much of it from the war spending bill. (Associated Press)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sunday that job growth is "taking time, but we're making progress." ("Meet the Press" via Associated Press)
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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)
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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)
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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)
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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, personnel battle a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)
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Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's pay czar, said Friday, July 23, 2010, that 17 banks gave their top executives $1.6 billion in lavish payments while they were receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts.(AP Photo/The Sun Herald, Amanda McCoy)
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In this July 21, 2010 photo, a Best Buy customer looks at a Motorola Droid phone by Verizon in Mountain View, Calif. Verizon posts a loss for the second quarter Friday, July 23, 2010, due to a buyout for 11,000 workers, and its revenue comes in below Wall Street expectations.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Group leaders work on a pre-production 2012 Ford Focus at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Thursday, July 22, 2010. Ford Motor Co. said Friday, July 23, 2010, it posted net income of $2.6 billion in the second quarter as it continued to grab sales from rivals in a slowly recovering U.S. market. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2011, customer Bill Wilson, 82, left, is tutored by technical advisor Jimmy Zhao during a personal training session in a Microsoft Store in Bellevue, Wash. Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, Jan. 27 said its net income for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago, and it beat Wall Street's expectations despite the weak personal computer market. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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FILE - In this file photo made June 23, 2010, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times, speaks during the New York Forum in New York. The New York Times Co. posted its first quarterly revenue growth since 2007 on Thursday, July 22, 2010, with a jump in online advertising revenue offsetting further declines in print.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this file photo made May 25, 2010, Amazon.com Inc. CEO and founder Jeff Bezos speaks during the company's shareholders meeting in Seattle. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday, July 22, 2010, that its second-quarter income jumped, bolstered by shoppers who spent more with the online retailer even as consumer confidence fell overall. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
